New Delhi:
Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after taking off, killing 260 people, were moved from the “Run” to the “Cutoff” position moments before the impact, said a provisional investigation report on Saturday.
The report, published by the India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), did not offer any conclusions or distribution to the disaster of 12 June, but indicated that one pilot asked the other why he cut off fuel, and the second pilot responded that he had not done that.
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner went from Ahmedabad in West India to London when it crashed, which killed one after all 242 people on board, as well as 19 people on the ground.
In his 15 -page report, the research agency said that as soon as the aircraft reached its upper registered speed, “the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel switches switched from run to cutting off one after the other with a time slit of 01 sec”.
“In the cockpit, one of the pilots is heard to ask the other person why he cuts off. The other pilot replied that he didn’t,” said it.
The plane started to lose the altitude quickly.
The switches then returned to the “Run” position and the engines seemed to collect strength, but “one of the pilots” transferred “Mayday Mayday Mayday,” said the report.
Air traffic controllers asked the pilots what was going on, but then saw the plane crashing and called emergency service to the scene.
Minister of Civil Aviation Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu told reporters that researchers investigated in a “adult, transparent” way. “This is a provisional report. We want the final report to arrive, so let’s wait for it,” he said.
Earlier this week, the specialized website reported the air flow, which quoted several sources with the probe that it “had reduced his focus to the movement of the motor fuel switches”, while noticing that full analysis will take months – no longer “.
It added that “the focus of the researchers could change at the time”.
The report of the Indian Agency said that the US Federal Aviation Administration had issued an information bulletin in 2018 on “the potential withdrawal of the locking function of the fuel control”.
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